knock (noun)
1knock-on effect — noun a secondary or incidental effect • Regions: ↑United Kingdom, ↑UK, ↑U.K., ↑Britain, ↑United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, ↑Great Britain • Hypernyms: ↑ …
2knock on — noun (rugby) knocking the ball forward while trying to catch it (a foul) • Topics: ↑rugby, ↑rugby football, ↑rugger • Hypernyms: ↑play • Part Holonyms: ↑rugby, ↑ …
3knock — ► VERB 1) strike a surface noisily to attract attention. 2) collide forcefully with. 3) force to move or fall with a collision or blow. 4) make (a hole, dent, etc.) in something by striking it. 5) informal criticize. 6) (of a motor) make a… …
4knock-knock joke — [knock knock joke] noun a type of joke that depends on the way in which some words in English sound like other words. The person telling the joke says ‘Knock knock’, someone answers ‘Who’s there?’, and the first person says a name which isn’t… …
5knock-knock joke — noun One of a class of childish jokes told as a dialog, and usually including a pun, in the following form: : Knock knock. Syn: knock knock …
6knock-down — UK US US also knockdown) adjective [only before noun] ► extremely cheap or much lower than the usual amount: »a knock down deal/price/rate »They are offering a full broadband internet service for a knock down £17.99 a month. ► very serious and… …
7knock-for-knock agreement — UK US noun [C] INSURANCE ► an agreement between insurance companies in which each pays the claims of its own clients following an accident, whether or not their client is to blame …
8knock-on — UK US /ˌnɒkˈɒn/ adjective [only before noun] ► causing other events or situations to happen, although not directly: »High petrol prices could be having a knock on effect among manufacturers. »knock on benefits/consequences …
9knock-knees — ˈ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ noun plural : knees that approach each other or knock together because of knock knee developed knock knees at an early age …
10knock-off — ˈ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ noun (plural knock offs) Etymology: knock off 1. : the action of knocking off; especially : the automatic coming to a halt of a machine or of a part of a machine through the action of a device actuated when the functioning of the machi …